Sopih

Whereas Çomyopregi, my first conlang project, was a single language which, though itself fictional, was set on Earth and belonged to the Indo-European language family, my current project is quite different. Sopih is a world inhabited by humans whose cultures and languages exhibit a diversity on a level comparable to Earth. Some of its major languages are listed below. However, at the moment little information is available to the public.

• Renqila
• Arajan — Arajan is an important classical language, belonging to the Obic family. The ancient language was an agglutinative VSO language with a case system split between animate and inanimate nouns. Both noun classes were marked for case, but core arguments were not marked on the verb. Verbs differed widely for how their arguments were marked, depending on whether they were transitive, intransitive, experiencer verbs, verbs of motion, and whether the subject was animate. Modifiers followed their heads, although there were no adjectives - genitive nouns, participles, or a few deictics were used. Arajan has two modern offshoots. The western variety is more conservative, while the eastern branch has become genderless, accusative, and SVO. Both now mark verb-subject agreement with affixes developed from cliticized pronouns.
• Swira — The earliest speakers of Swira were nomadic herders dominating the dry plains north of the Tepat civilization. Living in clannish tribes, with a noble warlike ethos, religious mysticism based on intoxication and self-injury, and a custom of seppuku, they were everything the Tepat considered barbaric. Unfortunately, the Swira were soon to overrun Tepat and establish a feudalistic empire over it. The Old Swira language was formerly a robustly polysynthetic language, with no unbound forms, excepting a few conjunctions and discourse particles. The basic word order appears to be SOV, although it is so flexible it's difficult to tell. Most nouns are obligatorily marked by possessive or deictic prefixes, while verbs indicate voice, tense, mood, and index the subject/patient, agent, and indirect object. They optionally include lexical affixes, applicative affixes, and incorporated nouns. The lack of adjectives is made up for by participles of stative verbs and a rich derivational morphology. Adpositions are made up for by applicative verbs and gerundial expressions. The Classical language represented an amalgam of Old Swira and related nomadic dialects with a heavy infusion of learned Tepat vocabulary. The modern language has simplified its verb morphology, developed prepostitions from common gerunds, and become more consistently SVO.
• Aipuran languages — spoken on the peninsula of Aipura.
• Tepat — The Tepat were an advanced civilization that flourished until they were conquered by nomadic warriors from the north speaking Swiric languages. Their old "empire" was a union of relatively autonomous city-states sharing the same general culture and political ideology. Having developed advanced mathematics in their astronomical studies, society was dominated by rationalist intellectuals adhering to a rigid mathematical logic, and dedicated to the idea social perfection could be attained by education and the progress offered by technology. What is known as the Classical Tepat language was a logographic literary language shared by city-states speaking different dialects or even languages. It was as well probably semi-artificial, modified prescriptively by academics according to their beliefs of what was logical, and as such might be the world's earliest auxlang. This logical language was isolating with rigid SVO word-order, a largely self-segregating (CV)CVC morphology, and phonological distinctions between content and function words.